Verfasst von:	Hattem, Michael D. [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Past and prologue
Titelzusatz:	politics and memory in the American Revolution
Verf.angabe:	Michael D. Hattem
Verlagsort:	New Haven ; London
Verlag:	Yale University Press
E-Jahr:	2020
Jahr:	[2020]
Umfang:	xii, 308 Seiten
Illustrationen:	Illustrationen
ISBN:	978-0-300-23496-1
Abstract:	How American colonists reinterpreted their British and colonial histories to help establish political and cultural independence from Britain. In Past and Prologue, Michael Hattem shows how colonists' changing understandings of their British and colonial histories shaped the politics of the American Revolution and the origins of American national identity. Between the 1760s and 1800s, Americans stopped thinking of the British past as their own history and created a new historical tradition that would form the foundation for what subsequent generations would think of as "American history." This change was a crucial part of the cultural transformation at the heart of the Revolution by which colonists went from thinking of themselves as British subjects to thinking of themselves as American citizens. Rather than liberating Americans from the past-as many historians have argued-the Revolution actually made the past matter more than ever. Past and Prologue shows how the process of reinterpreting the past played a critical role in the founding of the nation
URL:	Inhaltsverzeichnis: https://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780300234961.pdf
Schlagwörter:	(g)USA    / (s)Nationalbewusstsein    / (s)Amerikanische Revolution    / (z)Geschichte 1760-1800
	(g)Großbritannien    / (s)Kolonie    / (g)Nordamerika    / (s)Geschichtsbewusstsein    / (s)Entstehung    / (s)Nationalbewusstsein    / (g)USA    / (z)Geschichte 1730-1812
	(g)Großbritannien    / (s)Kolonialmacht    / (s)Geschichtsschreibung    / (g)USA    / (s)Nationalbewusstsein    / (z)Geschichte 1760-1800
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Hattem, Michael D.: Past and Prologue. - New Haven : Yale University Press, 2020. - 1 online resource (321 pages)
Sach-SW:	History
Geograph. SW:	United States
K10plus-PPN:	1747167282